[Sugar-devel] One instance activity

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 09.12.2008, at 18:55, Eben Eliason wrote:

> Are you sure?  Browse makes use of shared code, but still presents the
> user with the appearance of multiple instances.

Right.

The way to do it would be to create a unique D-Bus service in your  
activity. When the second instance tries to create that service it  
will notice that it already exists. It could then notify its first  
instance via said D-Bus service.

>  It seems to me that
> the request here to prevent instances entirely goes against the Sugar
> HIG, but I might be misunderstanding.
>
> Pablo, for what reasons do you desire to prevent multiple instances
> from running?


Hope there's a better reason than "it's too easy to create unwanted  
instances" ... (still waiting for the home view icons to resume by  
default)

- Bert -